Poor entry in the Carry on Series, and perfectly justifies the decision to stop making them a few years later.
Kenneth Connor as Major S Melly (need I say more), is appointed to an AA gunnery battery in the middle of nowhere and finds that the enlisted men,(and women) are more concerned with satisfying their own carnal desires than defending the old country from invaders.
Everything about this movie is wrong, from the fact that only 4 or 5 of our regulars are here and a plot so weak it must have been written on single ply toilet paper (which would explain a lot). In fact the movie was that bad, it was the first,(and to the best of my knowledge only) Carry On film to be withdrawn from Cinemas due to poor audience figures.
Joan Sims is there only to give a link to the past and is sad to see her so bloated and overweight. Peter Butterworth does manage to raise a chuckle with his two-faced praise of his drole CO. Jack Douglas is as always annoying and I fail to find a single funny thing he did in his entire carry on career.
The Great Windsor Davies re-creates his role as the tough talking Sgt Major from 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum' who along with Melvyn Hayes,(his co-star Hot Mum) are the only non-regulars to give performances worthy of the Carry On name.
Praise must be given to Kenneth Connor in his first leading role since the early B&W days of the series, he makes the most of the script he was given and turns in a fine comedic performance rather than rely on the naff one liners called for in the script. As always, Connor does well and troops along regardless (Ironically Connor was in fact a Gunner in the Army during WWII.) The less said about Judy Geeson and Patrick Mower the better. This movie was a mistake from it's planning to it's release and is a tragic inclusion to an illustrious series of films.
Kenneth Connor as Major S Melly (need I say more), is appointed to an AA gunnery battery in the middle of nowhere and finds that the enlisted men,(and women) are more concerned with satisfying their own carnal desires than defending the old country from invaders.
Everything about this movie is wrong, from the fact that only 4 or 5 of our regulars are here and a plot so weak it must have been written on single ply toilet paper (which would explain a lot). In fact the movie was that bad, it was the first,(and to the best of my knowledge only) Carry On film to be withdrawn from Cinemas due to poor audience figures.
Joan Sims is there only to give a link to the past and is sad to see her so bloated and overweight. Peter Butterworth does manage to raise a chuckle with his two-faced praise of his drole CO. Jack Douglas is as always annoying and I fail to find a single funny thing he did in his entire carry on career.
The Great Windsor Davies re-creates his role as the tough talking Sgt Major from 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum' who along with Melvyn Hayes,(his co-star Hot Mum) are the only non-regulars to give performances worthy of the Carry On name.
Praise must be given to Kenneth Connor in his first leading role since the early B&W days of the series, he makes the most of the script he was given and turns in a fine comedic performance rather than rely on the naff one liners called for in the script. As always, Connor does well and troops along regardless (Ironically Connor was in fact a Gunner in the Army during WWII.) The less said about Judy Geeson and Patrick Mower the better. This movie was a mistake from it's planning to it's release and is a tragic inclusion to an illustrious series of films.